Chapter 11 Quiz Without Consequence

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. There is little reason to use visual aids if your choice of aids serves no useful purpose.

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. Using several different-sized fonts for each PowerPoint slide is not advisable because it may confuse your audience and make reading text difficult.

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. PowerPoint slides or a Prezi presentation can enhance any speech.

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. Sometimes there is no substitute for showing the actual object to your audience. For example, you need to show the actual assault rifle to your classmates during your public speaking class on campus to illustrate key points made about the weapon.

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. Tables are great for isolating and clarifying a lot of information.

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. You want to demonstrate the perils of gum disease. Which of the following would be an effective visual aid?

Asking for a volunteer from the audience and showing the state of his or her gums for all to see correct incorrect

Showing a large photo of gum disease correct incorrect

Drawing a picture on the whiteboard showing potential "hot spots" for gum disease correct incorrect

All of the above correct incorrect

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. You are giving a speech on Middle East crises in the last decade. Recognizing that most members of your audience cannot identify most countries and their locations, you should

draw a map of the Middle East while giving your speech correct incorrect

provide a bar graph about each country correct incorrect

show a large map of the Middle East taken from a geography book correct incorrect

provide a table that lists all Middle Eastern countries with directions that give their locations correct incorrect

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. Which of the following is a common mistake made by speakers who use visual aids?

Standing in front of the visual aid, blocking the audience's view correct incorrect

Using a font size of 44 points for PowerPoint slide headings when lecturing in a large auditorium using a huge screen correct incorrect

Covering visual aids when not referring to them; this prevents audience members from studying the aid carefully correct incorrect

All of the above correct incorrect

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. Guidelines for competent use of visual aids include

avoid simple visual aids; they are too commonplace correct incorrect

almost any visual aid is preferable to no aid at all correct incorrect

an occasional misspelling or grammatical error on a poster or slide is fine as long as you don't have too many correct incorrect

none of the above correct incorrect

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. Computer-assisted presentations are enhanced by the following:

Read your bullet points on PowerPoint slides to your audience correct incorrect

Provide lots of animation and clever graphics for each slide correct incorrect

Practice with the technology before giving your presentation correct incorrect

All of the above correct incorrect